NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 680

HOUSE BILL 439

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 20 TO MAKE MOTOR VEHICLE LAWS WHICH NOW APPLY TO "PUBLIC VEHICULAR AREAS", APPLICABLE TO SUBDIVISION STREETS OFFERED FOR DEDICATION TO THE PUBLIC BUT OVER WHICH CONTROL IS NOT EXERCISED BY PUBLIC AUTHORITIES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 20 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding a new sentence to G.S. 20-4.01(32) at the end to read as follows:

"The term 'public vehicular area' shall also include any street opened to vehicular traffic within a subdivision which has been offered for dedication to the public by the filing of a map, plat or written instrument in the office of the Register of Deeds; provided however, a public authority (1) has not accepted the dedication of the street, and (2) a public authority has not assumed control over the street."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1979.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 29th day of May, 1979.